On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bryan Newell wrote: > Pardon me if I jump in here unannounced: > > >> If the plagues come _from_ the East and only hit Dragaera because its > >> various protections have failed, then that would be a wonderful > >> precursor to invasion - even invasion embodied simply by natural > >> expansion to fill the voids left behind by dead outlying Dragaeran > >> communities. > > > >In _FHYA_, pg 546 of the ppb, Paarfi writes that after the Disaster > >"the first seeds of the Great Plagues were beginning in Adrilankha, > >Candletown, Northport, Branch, and Tirinsar." > > I don't believe Branch or Tirinsar are mentioned elsewhere, but the other > three are all port cities... I assumed that at least the other three were cited as large cities - ports tend to be the largest cities, at least until very recently. OTOH Northport didn't strike me as large in _Orca_. > Has anyone run across a reference to the Empire trading with Easterners > over water? I can't think of any. I believe _Brokedown Palace_ gives a bit of evidence to that effect at the end. I have a vague memory of someone talking about an E-D sea battle around Adrilankha.